Author Stuart Udell

Stuart J. Udell joined K12 as the company’s Chief Executive Officer in February 2016. Mr. Udell brings significant strategic and operational experience to K¹² in the education industry, amassed over a 27-year career.
Most recently, Mr. Udell served as Executive Chairman and prior as Chief Executive Officer of Catapult Learning, Inc., a privately held provider of instructional services, professional development, and operator of schools.
Prior to joining Catapult Learning, Mr. Udell was the President of Postsecondary Education at The Princeton Review. He was concurrently the Chief Executive Officer of Penn Foster, a global leader in high school and career-focused online learning, which he sold to The Princeton Review. Mr. Udell spent eleven years at Kaplan, most recently as President of Kaplan K¹² Learning Services, where he built the K-12 school division. From 1997-2001, Mr. Udell was President of the School Renaissance Institute, the training, publishing, and research subsidiary of Renaissance Learning.
Mr. Udell has served the last thirteen years on the board of directors of the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (Clemson University), where he was recently recognized for his contributions as Chairman. Mr. Udell holds a MBA from Columbia University and a BS from Bucknell University.